Guitarist,
Multi-Instrumentalist and Composer, Pete McRae,
currently working out of Philadelphia, was born in
Austin Texas in 1955, at age 3 moved to Odessa-Midland
Texas and spent most holidays at his maternal
grandparents ranch in nearby Rankin (he still has some
cowboy in him). The McRaes moved to Jacksonville,
Florida (aged 5), then to St Petersberg, spent some time
with fraternal gradparents in Bockton, MA. In the Summer
of 1965 his family moved to Marin County CA (just ouside
SF) where he attended Bernard Hoffman Elementary, in
Terra Linda. By age 13, McRae was on his way to becoming
a hippie, he started playing guitar and listening to The
Rolling Stones and Jefferson Airplane. McRae spent most
of his life in
California. <details>

Pete graduated from Terra
Linda High School, in Marin County a few years
after Freddy Moore had
studied there.

In the 1970s he migrated to
Los Angeles and became a founding member of "The
Kats" (as the world came to
know them).

Both McRae and Bobbyzio
Moore offered their talents to
several LA Produced studio recordings, including
The Faraghers (Polydor 1979).

After
the managerial/political debacle of "The Great Lost Kats Album",
Pete went on to become a successful gun-for-hire
guitarist and has performed and recorded with a wide range of musical artists
ever since.

McRae went on to work
with:Roach and the White
Boys,
Josey Cotton, Bobbyzio, The Kat Club!,Connie
Stevens, Eddie Jobson (Roxy Music; Zappa), Mr. Mister,
Peter Kingsbery (Cock Robin), David Baerwald, and
Stan Ridgway.McRae
also toured with The
Rembrandts playing Cello and
Mandolin.

Most notable, is his guitar work as a session and touring
musician. Pete incorporates his
distinctive (some say genius) style of guitar and slide
into each band's sound. You really have to see him to
believe him.